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The growing subordination of wiki values on Wikipedia

What happens when different systems of knowledge intersect within mass collaborative projects?

WikiEpistemic values

constructionism

co-construction

collaboration

cooperation

trust in the community

self-identification

EncyclopedicEpistemic values

utility

systematic organization

consistency

authority

trust in experts

The Userbox Controversy

Westerman, W. (2009). Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy. In, Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular expression in a digital world (pp. 123--158). All USU Press Publications.